Senior Software Engineer

With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world.

We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming.

This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live.

This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day.One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform.Data Connects Us.

About the Role : Confluent is seeking an innovative and executing Senior Developer to help make stream processing feel like using a database with SQL.

In this role, you will be instrumental in developing the core building blocks that will allow users a true just-in time, consumption based experience, making it the most efficient and fast cloud native Apache Flink experience on the market.

You will be working in a team with other known Flink experts iterating on an already existing implementation based on actual usage data and product requirements.

With the team you will also be working on relevant components of open source Apache Flink that will benefit both the Open Source community as well as Confluent.

What You Will Do : Work on the next iterations of Flink user defined functions that can execute untrusted code securely on Confluent cloud - in java and python on various cloud service providers.

Work on building block flink components such as shim layers, SQL logical query planner, parser, optimizer, flink control plane and SQL runtime on Confluent Cloud and guarantees an efficient and unified experience for batch and streaming workloads.

Collaborate with partner teams across components like compute platform, schema registry, kafka, flink runtime and cloud control plane to get work done.

Following a holistic development approach you will be responsible for the code quality, test coverage, documentation and maintainability of the components you and your team work on.

Designing Components : You will not only implement aspects of Flink runtime but also draft designs, discuss them and curate and moderate a decision with involved stakeholders.

Open Source contribution : As part of the Flink runtime team you will contribute to relevant changes and features to Open Source Apache Flink and help the community to maintain a high quality project by participating in relevant mailing list discussions, reviewing PRs affecting deployment and coordination components.

Open Source visibility : You will also write blog posts and give talks at meetups and conferences to strengthen the position of Confluent Cloud as industry experts for stream processing and Apache Flink in particular.

Team : As part of the team you will help to follow and maintain processes, by being an active part of the team, leading meetings and taking initiatives where feasible and participating in on-call rotations.

What You Will Bring : 2+ years of software development.Hands-on experience in designing and development of complex distributed systems especially in the Context of Apache Flink.

Implement features in the area of distribution and coordination of distributed systems like Apache Flink.Strong problem-solving skills, capable of translating complex requirements into effective solutions.

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to collaborate across teams.Familiarity with Flink or similar systems - checkpointing, exactly-once semantics, 2-phase commit protocols is highly desirableCome As You AreAt Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture.

We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences.

The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

At Confluent, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including work history, education, professional experience, and location.

This position has an annual estimated salary of $139,230 - $163,620, an annual bonus, and a competitive equity package. The actual pay may vary depending on your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location.

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